19.03.2010
- Pfizer may still be eager to buy generic drugmakers, after being outbid for Germany's Ratiopharm in an effort to shore up revenue as it braces for evaporating sales of its...
10.03.2010
- Facet Biotech has agreed to be acquired by Abbott Laboratories for $27 a share, topping a hostile offer of $17.50 a share made last year by Biogen Idec. Shares of Facet rose 67%...
08.03.2010
- Wacker Chemie has opened a new production facility for pharmaceutical proteins - also known as biologics - in Jena, Germany. The new plant is part of the Munich-based chemical...
05.03.2010
- Global pharmaceutical and chemical company Merck KGaA headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, will acquire Millipore Corporation, a leading Life Science company based in Billerica, U...
02.03.2010
- The European Commission has approved Amflora, BASF's genetically optimized starch potato, for commercial application in Europe. The potato can now be used for the production of...
02.03.2010
- Germany's family-controlled Merck KGaA agreed to buy U.S. biotech tool maker Millipore for $6 billion to diversify away from its embattled drugs business. While analysts said the...
02.03.2010
- Merck KGaA's agreed $6 billion cash purchase of U.S. biotech tool maker Millipore buoyed the German drugmaker's share on Monday as it diversified away from its embattled...
01.03.2010
- Germany's Merck KGaA on Sunday said it agreed to buy U.S. biotech tool maker Millipore for around $6 billion in cash, as the company looks to build its lab equipment business...
23.02.2010
- Laboratory equipment maker Thermo Fisher Scientific has offered $6 billion to buy Millipore, according to a person familiar with the situation, in a deal that would increase its...
19.02.2010
- The energy industry has reached a crossroad. An enormous effort will be needed in the coming years worldwide to ensure security of supply. China and the U.S., the two largest...
